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The first aim of profiling is to test a representative system to identify what's slow, using too much RAM, causing too much disk I/O or network I/O. You should keep in mind that profiling typically adds an overhead to your code.

In this post, I will introduce tools you could use to profile your Python or Django projects, including: timer, pycallgraph, cProfile, line-profiler, memory-profiler.

cProfile

cProfile is a tool in Python's standard library to understand which functions in your code take the longest to run. It will give you a high-level view of the performance problem so you can direct your attention to the critical functions.